The Survey Geek

Category: Conferences

  • HSRM – Day 2 PM

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    The afternoon session is about monitoring Healthcare Reform. But first I must say how impressive the discussion was at the end of the morning session. At this conference the discussion part of a session is taken very seriously. It is a genuine dialogue among people who know their stuff. None of the usual eye rolling…

  • HSRM – Day 2 AM

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    There is a bit of a cloud over the conference this morning. A number of the papers were written by and to be presented by government people who could not travel yesterday because of the potential government shutdown. So people from the contractor side are taking up the slack and delivering the government papers. The…

  • Health Survey Research Methods Conference

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    I am at the 10th Health Survey Research Methods Conference in Peachtree, GA, which is just outside Atlanta. This is a very unique conference that has been held every two or three years since 1975. It is a gathering of government health survey researchers and people from the companies that do most of their data…

  • CASRO Online Conference: Final Thoughts

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    I had significant misgivings about going to this conference given its location (Las Vegas) and the fact that I already was committed to speaking in London earlier in the week. But I was glad I went. The WARC Conference was interesting but the focus there was mostly on the so-called NewMR. That's pretty much always…

  • WARC Online Conference: Final Thoughts

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    Starting around 2009 MR conferences have increasingly been dominated by papers and presentations focused on the use of social media as a source of insight about brands, consumers, and markets. The combination of declining cooperation and rising costs in traditional methods; widespread concerns about basic panel data quality, representivity, and the long-term sustainability of the…

  • Is “Good Enough” really good enough?

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    Earlier in the week I was fortunate to attend and speak at the International Journal of Market Research Methods Forum. It was one of those one-track, everybody in the same room conferences with lots of time to interact. Myself excepted, the speakers and presentations were of uniformly high quality and centered around the theme of…

  • Still feeling our way

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    In my last post I promised some short updates on the just-concluded ESOMAR Congress in Athens. Then my family and I set off on a driving vacation around the Peloponnese where thoughts of MR and the Congress quickly drifted away. I was reminded of this when the morning's email included a note from a colleague…

  • Where is our Copernicus?

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    I was at the AAPOR Conference in Chicago most of last week and while I had planned to do some blogging it was hard given the sheer overwhelming amount of information, opinions, and data being shared. (And besides, Jeffry Henning was there pounding out posts on his shiny new iPad so I am confident the…

  • Mobile Research Conference 2010 – Final Thoughts

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    Reflecting back over the last couple of days I'm finding four takeaways. But first, I think we need to do a better job of distinguishing between what one presenter called "the audio channel" versus other forms of mobile data collection, mostly by Web. It seems that when most people say "mobile" they mean the latter,…

  • Mobile Conference is done!

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    Now for the afternoon session. Tim Macer is chairing another panel. He has set the bar pretty high in the last panel so it will be interesting to see if he can clear it again. His panel is Richard Windle (again); Nick Lane from Mobile Squared; Linda Neville from Coke (again); and Tanja Pferdekamper from…